29326. Adulteration and misbranding of flour. U. S. v. 185 Bag's and 56 Bags of Flour. Consent decrees of condemnation. Product released under bond, one lot to be relabeled and the other to be disposed of for pur- poses other than for human food. (F. & D. Nos. 43219, 43220. Sample Nos. 37627-D, 37628-D.) One lot of this flour was insect-infested; and the other was bleached and its label failed to bear a conspicuous statement indicating that it was bleached. On August 8, 1938, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 241 bags of flour at New Orleans, La.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about July 6, 1938, by Kimbell Diamond Milling Co., from Sherman, Tex.; and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. One lot was labeled: "Kimbell's Best Baker's Patent Flour Manufactured by Kimbell Diamond Milling Co. Sherman, Tex." The other lot was labeled: "Whitewright Milling Co. Lone Star Extra Quality Baker's Flour Fort Worth, Texas bleached." One lot was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy vegetable substance. 108566—38 2 The other lot was alleged to be misbranded in that the word "bleached," printed in yellow type near the bottom of the bags, was false and misleading and tended to deceive and mislead the purchaser since it was so inconspicuously placed as to be illegible. On August 11. 1938, the Kimbell Diamond Milling Co., claimant, having ad- mitted the allegations of the libels, judgments of condemnation were entered. The decrees provided, however, that the product be released under bond condi- tioned that the insect-infested lot be denatured so that it could not be used for human consumption but might be used as feed for animals and that the misbranded lot be relabeled. HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.